LITV - Amos - 2

2:1  So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

2:2  But I will send a fire against Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth. And Moab shall die with uproar, with a war cry, with the sound of the ram's horn.

2:3  And I will cut off the judge in its midst, and I will kill all his rulers with him, says Jehovah.

2:4  So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn back from it; for they despised the law of Jehovah, and they have not kept His statutes. And their lies after which their fathers walked led them astray.

2:5  And I shall send a fire against Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

2:6  So says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn back from it, for they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals,

2:7  panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless, and turning aside the way of the humble. And a man and his father will go in to the same girl, in order to profane the name of My holiness.

2:8  And they will stretch out beside every altar, and on garments taken in pledge. And they will drink wine of those being fined in the house of God.

2:9  Yet I destroyed the Amorite from before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the great trees. And I destroyed his fruit from above and his roots from below.

2:10  Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you in the wilderness forty years, to possess the land of the Amorite.

2:11  And I raised up from your sons for prophets, and for Nazarites from your young men. Is this not even so, O sons of Israel? declares Jehovah.

2:12  But you gave the Nazarites wine to drink, and you commanded the prophets, saying, Do not prophesy.

2:13  Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart full with produce is pressed.

2:14  And refuge shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, nor shall the mighty deliver his life,

2:15  and he who handles the bow shall not stand, and he swift footed shall not save, and the horse rider shall not save his life.

2:16  And the stouthearted among the mighty shall run away naked in that day, declares Jehovah.